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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallak" data-source="post: 3398058" data-attributes="member: 37105">The mutt chomps the tough jerky, gripping it between his teeth.  He slinks behind a crate on the pier where he can gnaw on the jerky out of sight.Colmarr and Naomi grab a cloak for her and bundle her against the cold night air.  The crew works their way back through the dark streets of Tortila to the Three-Penny Inn.  The town has gone still and quiet.They reach the inn without incident.  A light is burning in the commons room, visible from the street.  When they enter, a musician is on stage playing a subdued melody.  Middle-class men are gathered around tables drinking, smoking, eating, and laughing good-naturedly.  There is an edge to their mirth, though.  The innkeeper is at the bar serving drinks.  She, too, is smiling and laughing, but her eyes are tight.  She glances at the door as soon as they walk in, and relief washes over her features at the sight of Eloise.  It is replaced almost immediately by maternal anger.  She says something to one of the men near her then comes around the bar, angling for the group and her daughter."Eloise Darling Wendette, where have you been?  What have I told you about going out at this hour of the night?""But--""Don't you "but" me, missy!  You get that backside of yours into an apron and attend to your duties before I take you over my knee right here and now!  Get!"  The innkeeper thrusts one beefy arm toward the kitchen, her index finger pointing the way.  Eloise fairly leaps toward the kitchen, moving faster than the crew has ever seen her move before."And coming back with a gaggle of men, no less," the innkeeper says, turning toward the crew. "Oh, you're the crew of the Pander Ban. Oh! Is my Bennie with you?" A hopeful light fills the innkeeper's eyes, and she cranes her neck as if trying to see around everybody to where Captain Ben might be hiding.</blockquote>

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